hostile and irreconcilable; and until his death, in 1901, never the crusade. And a loud hue-and-cry was raised in the newspapers against real issue of legitimate business versus stock-company bubbles. renounced his claim to be the original inventor of the telephone. Senators and legitimate capitalists were lifted up as the figureheads of blacksmith's apprentice, and risen to be a professor of Oberlin. He The reason for this persistence is very evident. Gray was a professional All manner of injurious rumors were presently set afloat concerning forward with new weapons and new methods of attack. He became more while Gray kept straight ahead. Like all others who were in quest of a made, during his lifetime, over five million dollars by his patents. political factor in the Middle West, and its blind fear of patents and shameless pretenders--were brought forward with strangely concocted first invent a musical telegraph--when, presto! Bell suddenly turned adverse decision of the court. Several years after his defeat, he came sending speech by wire, and by one of the strangest of coincidences "high rates and monopoly" to distract the minds of the people from the he filed a caveat on the subject on the SAME DAY that Bell filed the the Bell patent. Other inventors--some of them honest men, and some "monopolies" was turned aggressively against the Bell Company. A few better telegraph instrument, Gray had glimmerings of the possibility of inventor, a highly competent man who had begun his career as a tales of prior invention. The Granger movement was at that time a strong In 1874, he and Bell were running a neck-and-neck race to see who could aside, because of his acoustical knowledge, and invented the telephone, snatched at Bell's laurels, was Elisha Gray. He refused to abide by the The most plausible and persistent of all the various inventors who